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Comment by Jaylen

The High Priestess is a place holder NPC/Mob. It is one of the few cases in WoW where they have a dynamic change that takes place if you completed a quest.

Essentially, she appears if everyone has already saved the princess of Iron Forge. So this NPC is probably an indicator to go ahead and kill her instead of asking and hoping nobody needs the Princess.

EDIT:

As of Wrath, and certainly Cata, the "few cases" is obsolete.

Comment by brusko

Unfortunately, she doesnt have the red rose bouquet for the My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose acheivement.

Comment by NightmareMJ

While she has the same loot table as Moria Bronzebeard, this boss will nearly always drop at least something good, where as Moria will rarely drop her own loot.

Lore wise: High Priestess of Thaurissan is either Moria turned high priestess, or The Emperor's new consort =)

Comment by afaneha

i'm a noob.. but i was just wondering.. what lvl is she?

Comment by Cheeseknight

I believe she is level 55.

Comment by RipperGand

The first female Dark Iron I see... I don't think there are any others to be honest...

Comment by LeviGratton

I take it this character's existence is also a way to prove that the Princess really was under mind control, and did free herself and return home.

Comment by Herecius

Quite possibly one of the first uses of Blizzard's phasing technology. As Blizzard has said, the technology available for phasing has been within the game's code since release, they simply neglected to use it on a large scale until WotLK.

What's more, this example of phasing was done within an instance, something that has not been repeated (to my knowledge) again up to this point. Perhaps we'll see examples of dungeon-phasing in Cataclysm.

Comment by clovis6780

She is one ugly woman. Nevermind that she's a dwarf. I can't really put my finger on it, but maybe it's that her complexion doesn't seem to work well with...something. I don't know.

Comment by gamerunknown

I'd like to see this with Illidan for example. If everyone in the raid group has killed him, he could be replaced by a trash mob who was under his tutelage. Dead in lore.

Edit: Perhaps not Illidan then, but Onyxia and Nefarian definitely (you chop their heads off!). Either that or you "relive" the role played by the actual adventurers who took the boss down, with a bit of license as to their classes and faction. Or perhaps they could implement some NPCs in there that battle the trash packs with you to represent the fact that you've "progressed" and have a name swap for the NPCs inside.

Comment by radicarl

As of this latest patch, 5.3, she has now REPLACED Moira Bronzebeard next to Thaurissan. I believe this is because Moira is now a "good guy" and Blizz doesn't want us killing her anymore.I don't know how I feel about that, to be honest.

Comment by Wolgan

As of 5.4, I ran the instance with both an old character that had completed the quest before it was removed, and with a new character freshly made this month. The old character could loot the drop, the new one could not, *BUT* once looted I was able to trade the loot to the new character as you would with any normal boss drop. Was running with free-for-all, new character could see the item but "was not eligible to loot that item".